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by bdamm 7y ago
Why? If anything, it's going to become the most intensively analyzed airplane with the most widely broadcast flight envelope in aviation history. I personally hope that the Max gets back in the skies soon. I can't wait to get on b
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by bdamm 7y ago
Richmond has entire malls where you will not find any English language. I do not believe that is the case in Cupertino. Also, Canada's approach to multiculturalism allows this to flourish, whereas America's "melting pot"
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by bdamm 7y ago
I like my entertainment to also be reasonably accurate so I'll take it. He doesn't make me feel smart, but his content does fill a curiosity itch. Especially since I will not be considering a career in rocket engineering!
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by bdamm 7y ago
I'm only talking about American pilots flying in America, which any chief ATP @ Boeing most certainly would be.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Seriously. An Airline Transport Pilot must: * Have demonstrated precision flying, including precision power off landings, from a variety of altitudes and preconditions. * Multiple demonstrations of a wide range of flying capabilities, inclu
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by bdamm 7y ago
Not sure if this is "null-check elisions" but there was the famous case of the Debian SSH daemon package generating easily guessed keys because the packager "fixed" the upstream code... the upstream code was using uninit
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by bdamm 7y ago
That viewpoint is needlessly absolutist. There's obviously no way that native nations could even afford to negotiate with the US Federal Government. That was true 184 years ago, and it's still true now. At the same time these peop
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by bdamm 7y ago
Certainly will be happy to not get a shot of exhaust in the face every time I get groceries.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Personally I like HN the way it is. Very little UI clutter. If we start doing ISO dates and maybe options to switch between high precision and default low precision, we lose the good feel that HN has produced.
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by bdamm 7y ago
I think you mean velocity. Lots of velocity.
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by bdamm 7y ago
True, it would be nice to move elsewhere so that we can fulfill our DNA's desire to spread out. However, the Earth is the only rock we've ever found life on at all anywhere, including within our own solar system. Before we blithel
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by bdamm 7y ago
I have. From that wiki article, paper mills account for less than 1% of GHGs globally. Also, the most hazardous chemical effluent is dioxins, which have seen major reductions globally within the pulp and paper industry because the industry
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by bdamm 7y ago
On of my favorite aspects of this story is that in order to invent the propeller (one of Wright's true innovations) they had to invent and build the Lift Balance. They built the Lift Balance[1]... out of bicycle spokes and hack saw bla
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by bdamm 7y ago
The whole "eco friendly" thing about hand dryers never made sense to me. In fact, I think it's a marketing ploy by the air dryer makers. Paper towels are great, and they come from trees, which we can and want to grow more of.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The emerging research showing hearing damage to children, who stand closer and lower in to the air blower, is pretty damning. I'll pretty much never use these if I can avoid it. Paper towel is quick, it's quiet, it's mess fre
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by bdamm 7y ago
Is there a theoretical limit to the device's performance? Something relatable to power like milliwatts/m^2? How does this theoretical limit relate to the devices you've actually built? Is it possible for a device to be both a
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by bdamm 7y ago
It may be easy for you, but I've had a tough time outperforming ABS on ice and leaves. And the ABS of today is better than the ABS of the '90s. In pretty much every case where I've done real-world emergency hard braking I hav
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yes, I can relate! My first real reverse-engineering effort was hex-decoding font files for the Descent series. My first collaborate programming project was writing a cross-section editor for a guy writing an extrusion engine that could be
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by bdamm 7y ago
OpenBSD, now providing safety in a whole new way...
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by bdamm 7y ago
Addiction has earned a medical definition in recent decades, and it focuses on the psychological feeling of craving and the persistent compulsive behavior. Thus, under the modern definition of addiction, yes you can experience craving for a
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by bdamm 7y ago
There are many forms of fungi (mold, various rot) that can feed on wet wood. There are not many forms of fungi that can feed on cured adhesive, which also functions to prevent the wood that is there from getting wet. Thus, I'd expect e
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah, presumably the same way they solve it everywhere, which is that police, ambulance, fire, and city all have the same keys to the same bollards. And when they don't, they just use their bolt cutters or drive up over the sidewalk. N
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by bdamm 7y ago
It isn’t like governments haven’t been trying. Certain groups prefer “job creation” over “government programs” and then get angry when their industry collapses. America has an education problem, and we need more people taking microeconomics
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by bdamm 7y ago
For a while call centers were popping up in the wake of factory shutdowns.
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by bdamm 7y ago
One thing fungi are generally good at is regulating bacteria. So that might end up being the beneficial role. However, it would have to be very specific fungi to survive within the body at all yet not damage the body, and likely also respon
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by bdamm 7y ago
As experienced on earth, as in during the day vs during the night? (I don’t know which side is facing galactic center but I’m sure it’s almost half the day one way and almost half the day the other way.)
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by bdamm 7y ago
Relative to other galaxies? Yes, in fact I believe there’s a galaxy or two on a collision course.
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by bdamm 7y ago
This is silly, guns can't protect the population against the modern government. It would start by running a disinformation campaign to turn citizens against each other, then would purge large swaths of the resisting power structure usi
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by bdamm 7y ago
The belt and road initiative is fascinating, including their cultivation of Africa. The scheme where they lend poor nations money to build ports and then when the port authority fails to fulfill the repayments, they simply take over the por
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by bdamm 7y ago
Call out to a shell? Pass structs between C-based programs using sockets? Use runtime marshalling? Make your "API" be just different arbitrary JSON objects mapping to maps? Hide the entire API behind a lazy cache with undocumented

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